Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
- BSB So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- NKJV Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear.
- NASB “So I Myself have stripped your skirts off over your face, So that your shame will be seen.
- NLT I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.
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Quick answer
God will expose Judah's shame publicly because of her sin.
Overview
The vivid, distressing image of uncovered garments portrays the humiliation of judgment. Sin that was hidden will be brought to open disgrace. It reflects the biblical principle that what is concealed will be exposed, and that shame follows unrepented sin.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Lam 1:8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
- Hos 2:10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
- Ezek 16:37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
- Ezek 23:29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
- Jer 13:22And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
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